Congratulations to The Blind Side!!
November 23, 2009In honor of Sandra Bullock’s tour de force, The Blind Side, making it to #2 at the box office this weekend (second only to vampire/werewolf mega sensation New Moon) The Oreo Experience is pleased to release some as yet unheard material from pre production.
While this song (recorded with white [natch] singer/songwriter Athena) unfortunately did not make it into the final soundtrack, I think it does a great job at showing why this movie is so important to an Oreo. Without movies like these showing us how RBP just can’t cut it on their own, they remind us why we fight so hard to be anything but an RBP.
Please enjoy.
Can’t get enough of this thematic material? I know I sure can’t! Gotta keep the Oreo fires burning with something. For more material that will remind you that RBP just can’t do it on their own and make you love to hate every drop of melanin you were born with, check out not only The Blind Side, but also, Dangerous Minds, Freedom Writers, O, Hardball, Up the Down Staircase, Step Up, Bring it On, Step Up 2: The Streets, Finding Forrester, Precious-Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, Fighting the Odds: The Marilyn Gambrell Story, Hancock, Wildcats, The Gridiron Gang, Friday Night Lights, and Transformers 2-because even on a near-apocalypitc, robotic future, the black robots are the only ones who can’t read. Thanks, ruling class, we clearly, really owe you!
I didn’t know black people could play acoustic guitar! Cool!
Yeah, we don’t, that’s why I’m learning, it! Great ice breaker at the club.
But the guitar you hear in this was provided by my friend and musician Athena. http://www.myspace.com/athenamariemusic
http://www.myspace.com/athenamariesongs
http://www.twitter.com/athenamariesong
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Athena-Marie/128078252788
She is fantastic. And white. And came to my rescue…still so many vestiges of being an RBP to shed.
Just to clarify, by “club,” I meant country and not dance.
LOL
And sad…
Nice try with the orphans.
Thought you’d enjoy this:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-blind-side,35586/
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